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1903
(cont.) (POLO MATCH AT LEEDS) (c 1903). [269]
A polo match is seen in progress; a spectator passing in the foreground waves his hat at the camera. (69ft.)
[270] [SCENES ON THE RIVER JHELEM, THE CHIEF WATERWAY OF SRINAGER THE CAPITAL OF CASHMERE] (section), p.c: [Charles Urban Trading Company], ph.: [Dr. J. Gregory Mantle].
A series of shots of a variety of craft on the river, which is spanned by a steel bridge. (20ft.)
Refs.: Charles Urban Trading Company. Catalogue, November 1903, p. 10
(no. 1020)
Low, Rachael and Manvell, Roger. The history of the British film, 1896
1906. London, 1948, p. 18
[271] [TOSSING THE PHOTOGRAPHER] (in (WINTER SPORTS)) p.c: [Charles Urban Trading Company], ph.: [Joseph Rosenthal].
Members of the "Old Tuque Blue" snow-shoeing club of Montreal tossing the Charles Urban Trading Company's cameraman in a blanket in the snow. (330347ft.)
Refs.: Charles Urban Trading Company. Catalogue, November 1903, p. 17 (no. 1043)
[272] [A TROUPE OF RUSSIAN DANCERS] p.c: [Charles Urban Trading Company].
Two male Cossack dancers, with a female partner, perform on a theatre stage. (65ft.)
Refs.: Charles Urban Trading Company. Catalogue, suppl. no. 1, January 1904, p. 13 (no. 1169)
[273] WON'T YOU COME HOME (c 1903). p.c: [Alpha Trading Company?]. dist. : Warwick Trading Company.
A young boy removes two very small kittens from the box in which they are laying with their mother. The cat climbs out of the box and replaces them. (90ft.)
Refs.: W. Butcher & Sons. List of films for hire. [September 1907], p. 7 (no. 24H)
1904 [274]
(ASCENT OF BALLOON) (in (RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR PROGRAMME)) (Great Britain?, c 1904).
A balloon attached to a cart is drawn towards and past the camera by horsemen. Then a squad of soldiers is seen holding the balloon down. They release it and it ascends with its basket out of sight. (209-242ft.)
[275] (CAVALRY MANOEUVRES) (in (RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR PROGRAMME)) (c 1904). p.c: [Warwick Trading Company?], ph.: [Joseph Rosenthal?].
A troop of cavalry enters a field by twos and threes ; the men dismount, run to form a line, run back to the horse, remount and form into ranks and ride away from the camera. (441-610ft.)
[276] [COCK FIGHTING ON THE ICE RINK] (in (WINTER SPORTS)) p.c [Charles Urban Trading Company].
Two contestants, seated on the ice with their arms folded over their knees, endeavour to push each other over with their feet. (235-253ft.)
Refs.: Charles Urban Trading Company. Catalogue, June 1905, p. 67 (no. 1239)
[277] [A DAY IN THE HAYFIELDS] p.c: [Hepworth Manufacturing Company].
All the various phases of haymaking are shown, from the cutting of the grass until the hay is stacked. (195ft.)
Refs. : Hepworth Manufacturing Company. A selected catalogue of . . . "Hepwix" films, 1906, p. 55 (no. 631)
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